Cell phones
Welcome the future with Ply Phone Concept Cum Mobile Office
By Cheryl | August 23, 2008
At Gadgets Blog we try to give you the best of techno breed, be it in style and design or features and applications. And KDDI Design Studio’s latest Ply Phone Concept is testimony to the fact. A step further to the Box to Play phone from KDDI, the Ply Phone designed by Hideo Kanbara is indeed a treat to watch and a pleasure to put hands on.
Ply Phone concept is a perfect technological gimmick for a strict professional, who prefers to stay close to his office as much as he can. The phone gives him all the office applications even on the go.
The design features multilayered plywood, working of which depends upon the diverse functionality linked to the various layers in the phone which home everything from a dialpad, keyboard, gamepad to touchscreen, pico project, and even a printer.
This concept has all the appeals to give a drool worthy cell pone, provided it sees the dawn.
Via: Yankodesign
Mophie’s Juice Pack To Increase Battery Life Of Your iPhone
By Vlad | August 23, 2008
iPhone comes with amazing features all packed into one sleek and sophisticated body. However, if you listen to music, watch YouTube videos, browse Internet and also talk and sms, you probably will have to charge your phone again and again. Battery backup for the iPhone isn’t all that great. Hence, you may like what we found lately. Mophie has a product called the Juice Pack, which increases the juice for your iPhone, that is, it increases the battery life of your phone.
Using Juice pack gives you standby rime of 250 hours; 8 hours talk time, 7 hours video playback and 24 hours of audio. The battery has to be inserted at the back and hence your sleek iPhone won’t be sleek anymore. It would in turn become bulky. But if you were looking for a huge battery life, you would really want to use Juice Pack. The product isn’t exactly cheap and is quite expensive and costs $99.95 and will be released in September. Learn more here.
Via: GizmoForGeeks
Luxury Gadget of the day: Noreve’s Diamond iPhone Case
By Cheryl | August 22, 2008
If you think that it’s only the iPhone that’s making a rage, you have all the reasons to think again for it is also the iphone sleeves and covers that are equally a mania. If the Swarovski crystalled iPhone case left you breathless. Check out this diamond encrusted wonder and you’ll be stunned! After all, diamonds are diamonds indeed!
This one from the house of Noreve is handcrafted and caked with no less than 272 diamonds making it to a stunning 6.8 carats. Made in fine leather, the iPhone case is good enough to make any one drool. And I guess, the iPhone truly deserves a home like this, specially when it is the Knalihs Athem diamond bathed iPhone.
Noreve offers a wide variety of colours for the diamond encrusted cover, right from the ever sensual black to passionate red and girly pink to cool blue and many more. Talking about price, we didn’t expect the Noreve diamond encrusted case to be any way reasonably priced and yes it wasn’t. So the crisp price tag hanging around the case reads $14,990. Quite deserved!
Via: Blavish
OpenFrame Platform to give iPhone like make over to the home phone!
By Cheryl | August 21, 2008
Enough of cell phones, lets talk land lines now. Yes, it definitely sounds berserk to mention land lines, when most of us are chucking them out for sleek cell phones and chucking the old sleek cell phones for the latest iPhone!
What if you cross breed your boring land line with the all new jazzy iPhone. If not world class but quite a manageable iPhone look alike breed will definitely result out for sure. I’m not talking crap, but people at OpenPeak who designed the OpenFrame platform are once again ready to become the pioneers to give an iphone-y makeover to your home phone.
Open Peak is all set to manufacture a traditional home phone consisting of ‘OpenFrame’ (the small tablet that looks like a digital picture frame. The final outcome will be soon ready with telecoms to be supplied to consumers at a price about $200 to $300.
And if you are already worrying about the applications, let me tell you that just like with iPhone, the company will also encourage developers to create third-party programs complementing the OpenFrame including the calendar, local weather & news and even internet radio. Hmmm…seems happy days are here again for the home phone!
Via: Coolest Gadgets
The real Music Box: Transforming concept phone from KDDI AU
By Cheryl | August 21, 2008
Do you love your music phone? Check out the latest concept of musical phone on the block from Japan’s KDDI AU Design Project and you’ll end up wanting to put your hands on it!
This device on display in Tokyo is the most intriguing cell phone of all called the ‘Box to Play. The secret behind such a name lies in the fact that the other wise sleek cell phone packed with the usual cool features, when is put on the music mode it transforms into a box with a graphic equalizer on it’s walls. If that didn’t make you drool, hear this – the Box to Play phone also homes a tiny embedded turntable allowing you to scratch the music playing on the phone. Sounds really interesting….must say – it’s indeed talking future or a bright future!
Via: Gizmodo
Luxury Gadget of the day: Knalihs Athem’s Diamond Studded iPhone 3G
By Cheryl | August 21, 2008
If the opulence of the world’s most expensive iPhone from the house of Amosu Ultimo or the glory of diamond bathed Olympic iPhone failed to commemorate the ultimate iPhone mania, then here is yet another glittering gadget that’s sure to encompass the grandeur of the iPhone phenomenon – the iPhone 3G by Swiss luxury designer and jeweler Knalihs Athem.
Taking luxury to the newer dimensions come the Apple iPhone 3G encrusted with no les than 475 finest quality brilliant cut diamonds weighing 3.75 carats. Want to be the proud owner of one? Hurry up as only 50 of these limited edition pieces will be designed world over.
Every piece comes with individual and official diamond grading details from a gemological lab as a stamp pf purity and credibility of your bling wonder while the hand-polised surface shouts luxury at its best.
With features and looks to make the owner proud of the possession, you can’t expect the price anyway less grand and the tag very much in sync with the glory of the 3G iPhone reads $10,000. Grab it now, or you might end up paying more as the count goes low.
Via: EliteChoice
Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte
By manoj | August 19, 2008
I choose to introduce myself as a Sony Ericsson’s fan than Nokia. Weird but true! Not that Nokia models doesn’t attract me but the musical models from Ericsson entice me more. The mention of Nokia 8800 is around for a while but its entry in new avatar is all set to break few heads. The 3G limited edition Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte is designed using carbon fibre, titanium and stainless steel. The model features 4GB of internal memory, an OLED display and a protective shield that leaves no gaps for fingerprints. The luxurious appeal of the 3.2 megapixel camera phone says a lot about the personality of the phone.
Priced at 1100 euros, the phone is an ideal discovery for those in a mood to change their current model with an aim to flaunt their fortunes.
Via Belowtheclouds / Productpage
Tiny Miny USB cell phone charger
By Cheryl | August 19, 2008
I had all the reasons to write about this gadget! It’s small, it’s portable and above all it’s highly functional. We are talking about this tiny and lightweight USB cell phone charger. It’s not a cell phone charger exactly but a battery charger to be more precise. Quite easy to cally than those bulky chargers this one is highly compact.
All you need to do with this charger is that just take the battery out of your cell phone and fix it into the slot available in this charger and let it infuse life in your cell phone. This one is good enough to adopt high capability switch power supply with efficient transforming and also extends the stand time and longevity of your battery. And the best part about this USB charger is that it can charge almost all models of cell phones unlike the other chargers that are good enough for only one kind of phone.
The only practical drawback that I could find in the USB cell phone charger was that the cell phone will remain switched off all the while it is on charging mode rest seems cool!
Price: US$12.00
Via: mobilabrando
Keep connected: World’ first handsfree bluetooth cell phone ski and snowboard glove
By Cheryl | August 19, 2008
Here comes a technological treat for the winter sports lovers, somewhat on the lines of glovephone concept! Checkout the latest in wearable technology – g.cell, the first handsfree cell phone ski and snowboard glove from the house of Swany. g.cell homes a fully integrated Bluetooth acceptable cell phone inside a fully functional ski and winter sports glove. Sounds actually cool!
Coming to the functionality part, the incoming calls can be detected by the vibrating action in the wrist while pushing the back of the hand will help you receive a call. The phone can work for 12 hours on standby and offers 4 hours of uninterrupted talk time and the recharger comes along with it. The speaker and the microphone are integrated in the palm and the thumb and for dialing a number they have provided for call-out voice command dial system.
If you are worried about the phone getting wet, then don’t fret as the outer shell of the phone is insulated water repellant. All in all this is indeed a useful cell phone to keep the professionals connected even while they are sloping down the snow.
Price: $495.
Via: BookofJoe
A Phone That Looks Like A High-heeled Shoe
By Vlad | August 18, 2008
We all get tired of the same old boring designs that we see on our gadgets. A little bit of spice is always good and creativity is always welcome. So we bring to you a cool phone that looks like a, well, a high heeled shoes. Probably the one who created this design is a woman who can’t wear high heels or maybe it is a man with a foot fetish. Whatever the case may be, it looks elegant and sleek and is a touch-tone telephone.
It comes with pushbutton tone/pulse switchable dialing, last number redial, and mute button for privacy, electronic ringer and also fully modular cord that plugs into a standard jack. At about $60, this really must be a great buy if you want to turn heads and attract some attention. Even otherwise, it is a great gadget that will surely last for a long time and would stay durable as well. Now we wonder why they didn’t design a cell phone that comes in the shape of a shoe, or worse, in the shape of body organs.
Via: GadgetMiss
